According to a press release today a company in the UK, limobroker.co.uk said they recently purchased the domain name, WeddingCarHire.co.uk for six figures.
“Although we paid a hefty six-figure sum for the domain name, we felt the market was worthy of such a substantial investment” Tej Randeva, Managing Director is quoted as saying.
However the domain was first registered in November 2009, and if in fact it was bought for six figures that would be the second recent domain registration to be resold in the six figures this week.
CamRoulette.com was sold for $151K a couple of days ago after being registered in November 2009.
I bet they really did not pay anywhere near that price and are just claiming they did for publicity.
Perhaps I am wrong… but I doubt it.
Troy
I agree with you but I’m amazed that people don’t seem concerned with the tax consequences of overstating what you spend or make in the press.
Yeah,
I sure would be mad to be the seller and be charged with tax evasion for not paying taxes on 100,000 plus in income that was never real.
Thanks for the free ad.
“WeddingCarHire.co.uk for six figures.”
very good news for my (500,000,000 to 2,000,000,000 potential market users) domains on sale… 🙂
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Although the domain is showing as registered in 2009 it was actually drop caught. The domain was probably originally registred 1999/2001.
Was sold for £800 a few days after it was caught: http://domainlore.co.uk/auctions/id/403
also WeddingCarHiring.co.uk sounds pretty good
but the uk annual potential market for this kind of site is in the range of only a few hundreds thousands… http://wiki.answers.com/Q/How_many_weddings_occur_each_year_in_the_UK
but the UK annual potential market for this kind of site is in the range of only a few hundreds thousands…
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tp://wiki.answers.co
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the weddings number in USA is higher
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but the .com .net .org domains are altready taken
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Mike, do you by any chance have a good email address for these fine and prescient folks who had the vision (and the $$) to buy this domain for that kind of money?
Thanks- Roy
How about WeddingCarHire.us?
they are just doing it for publicity. I m sure about it.
how people can pay such a hefty amount, the giant estibot says :
EstiBot Value: $ 4,300 USD
I agree with you LastDomainer. cheers !!!
I very much doubt about this.
Mike you are the 10th Person whos got doubt 🙂 hehehe cheeers !!!
“they are just doing it for publicity”
true
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LCD you are the 8th one to call it as bogus 🙂
cheeeeeeeeeeeeers buddy !!!
WeddingCarHire.us has been registered TODAY (but I doubt it has a big valua)
LCDwallpapers.com and LCDscreensavers.com & CellFunda.com you can never catch up the the free exposure I created.
Regards,
Tej
“the 8th one to call it as bogus”
theorically… EVERY domain name could be sold at a VERY HIGH price but WITHOUT lose money… just IF the buyer and seller are friends… 🙂
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good for you Tej 🙂
Lim(.)broker, seems like you are caught 🙂
Tej
but, how much you’ve really paid the domain?
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I know he’s gonna confess something now 🙂
come on tej, we dont mind you confessing….
As a Brit I find this plausible:
– “wedding car hire” is THE phrase in the UK
– the reported price is in the same ballpark as 1 wedding car
– it is connected to the wedding industry!
– Paul
“I find this plausible”
ok, so he can say us the true price… 🙂
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[wedding car hire]
cpc = $1.57
month exact searches on google : 18,100
estibot value : 4300
Seems like buyer and seller are really really nice friends obliging each other 🙂
You’ve got to love it when people bring an “estibot appraisal” into their argument 😉
“Seems like buyer and seller are really really nice friends obliging each other”
🙂
“the reported price is in the same ballpark as 1 wedding car”
I doubt that a wedding car costs millions
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Limobroker
Tej
So I’m going to ask you the same thing as responded to the first comment with.
Here in the States we have a little group known as the IRS including watching, listening and reading all things public including PR, and if they see someone chatting about spending a lot or making a lot of money they tend to watch out how that playout on their tax return.
There is another group here called the FTC, Federal Trade Commission which looks out for false information sent to the public.
You guys over in the UK have no such concerns?
Maybe I need to sell myself a few of my domains for 6 figures.
“the reported price is in the same ballpark as 1 wedding car”
> “I doubt that a wedding car costs millions”
Just so you know, 6 figures is thousands, not millions.
“in the UK have no such concerns?”
since London is the most important financial market of the world I think they surely have controls like those made by FTC
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im pretty sure that limobroker is not who he says. he comes across as sarcastic.
In my mind 6 figures would be 100,000 – 999,999 currency units.
“Just so you know, 6 figures is thousands, not millions.”
e.g. £ 999,999 is £1 close to an £ million or 1,489,998.52 USD at today’s change
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LCD
Just to play along when someone is talking about buying something in their own currency I don’t think they would convert it into dollars, that is to say if a guy in the UK says he spent six figures that would be six figures in his own currency, not converted to US or EU or anything else
however… just for curiosity… since Mr. Tej don’t say it us… who knows the real price of the domain?
You bloody yanks are too smart.
Regards,
Tej
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this is off topic but very interesting…
Internet in 1969 !!!
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BTW I see the phone number “0800 043 46 46” on the limobroker page, I am wondering if this is a toll free number?I have the US toll free number 800-S3X-VILLAGE. It goes to Blackberry.
These companies are overpaying for these domains. These names are getting picked up because they target a specific field. The camroulette.com sounds similar to that new social networking site the Russian whiz created.
It probably can be uses for online gambling. The problem is that domainers such as us have good domains that businesses would like, but most domain companies don’t have good marketing unless you appraise and spend additional money to market it.
The people who over paid for domains can afford to spend the money, and drive up the market. No way this domain is worthy of six figures. The name doesn’t even sound appealing.
I know for sure I have many domains that I can sell because I target specific jobs and services. Someone just got lucky selling the wedding domain which the companies claims is worth the
price. That domain is only worth the value to
them. Most people wouldn’t need this domain. A few months ago hdmicables.com sold for $12k. Estibot valued it at $280k. The market is determined by these unreliable appraisals and people who over pay for them.
I figured out that the hdmi domain was purchased by another company who sells those particular cables. If you put in the address, you are re-routed to their business which has another name. Us little people never receive a fair chance to enter auctions, but others with less appealing stuff are approved.
If you want to make a sale, you need to put in the work to attract prospective buyers. Pay attention to the market. Know what people want. Further, this domain is not worthy of six figures. It’s only value is to help the limo company in the UK.
The domain name has no value to any of us. Maybe it has some residual value from being around for a decade. Otherwise, only certain people receive a fair opportunity to make a sale.
These domains may have generateD some value over the years, and then some lucky person was luck enough to find them on a drop. Each of you can do the same, but how will you move them into an auction? Many domain companies pick up junk to add into their
auctions. Half of the domains never receive even one bid.
Excuse some of my errors in the last post. I’m using an IPhone to type these posts. Instead of us being awestruck by these six figure deals, we need to go after some of these domains sitting around at companies.
Attach an idea to your domains. Do what that kne kid did with the Jenny phone number on EBay. Companies are always looking for ways to increase business. This wedding domains is not worth anything to any domainers unless they have a limo service for weddings.
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the rumored price is high but at least its website really exists
how many high-priced domains are really used for websites?
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It’s possible they paid a lot for it, they can certainly afford it. It would be worth it if they do it right, coming top for ‘wedding car hire’ in Google could earn you a fortune. Oh, and purleeese – you can’t get real-life sensible figures/info from estibot and wiki-answers.
“coming top for ‘wedding car hire’ in Google could earn you a fortune”
yes, but only if you sell your services in several countries
unfortunately, a wedding car can’t be downloaded from the UK site
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I don’t think anyone outside of the UK uses that term. But maybe it is good for a UK company to have that domain. Good luck to them if they paid xxx,xxx for it, in recovering that cash.
“Good luck to them if they paid xxx,xxx for it, in recovering that cash.”
of course, it very much depends if the xxx,xxx price is closer to 100,000 rather than 999,999 🙂
however, despite the new owner of the domain reads this blog, he still hasn’t revealed us the real price
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“despite the new owner of the domain reads this blog”
Maybe he does, but I think the person posting as him is not actually him. The poster here seems to sarcastic to be running this business.
“the person posting as him is not actually him”
yes, I’ve had the same doubts reading the posts
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There are at least 572 businesses in this space in the UK according to Google.
If the sale price was low 6 figures I am thinking it was a bargain.
“If the sale price was low 6 figures I am thinking it was a bargain.”
Paul you’re a lone ranger nut unless you’re counting the cents figures.
“If the sale price was low 6 figures I am thinking it was a bargain.”
no, because, with few companies that share the same business, each one can make a good revenue no matter the domain name it uses and also if it hasn’t a website, so, ended these few days of clamor, due to the high priced domain buy (if happened) the xxx,xxx amount paid will be only a pure cost without any other advantage, then, they just lost money
it’s the same reason why I don’t believe that sex.com will be sold at an high price… a porn site doesn’t need to spend (nor can spend) $10-20M to buy a domain because, that money, will NEVER come back in the site owner pocket!
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however, surely, they’ve produced lots of discussions on the web… 🙂
I’ve made a serch on the web but no one site has news about about the price… I feel it will remain a mystery like happened with the office.com sale…
I just registered EarthShatteringNews.com, which according to DomainTools had never been registered before. A Google search (in quotes) brings up 2,460,000 pages.
EarthShatteringNews.com …to sell to…?
Paris Hilton. She could do a blog entry every time she has an orgasm.
Or maybe President Obama. He could do one every time he has another proposal which infringes on freedom of commerce.
Hopefully I can get them bidding against each other…
I’ve just done a search for ‘wedding car hire’ on google and http://www.weddingcarhire.co.uk is at the top of the search results.
It won’t take long for this company to make their money back!
I think that domain may have sold for about £100k ??
Now we are 2 “lone ranger nuts” 😉
>Now we are 2 “lone ranger nuts”
Nah robin north is Tonto.
I don’t think this domain is worth 6 figures! Is wedding car hire a popular search phrase? Not popular enough to be worh xxx xxx – Also, was it sold in $’s or £’s ??
Either way this company won’t see their returns for a LONG time.
Sean B.
I don’t know why people keep saying they won’t get their money back? How much do you think it costs to hire a limo or classic car for a wedding? How much money do you think you would make on wedding car hire if you could pull in all the big wedding deals, where they might have 5 or 6 cars or more?
It’s not an Adsense site or selling rubber ducks, they don’t need to shift millions of them to make their money.
I totally agree with that. After looking at the site, and its google ranking, I wouldn’t be suprised if they make their money back in a few months.
Wedding car hire is a good business if you do it right, these guys are doing it on a national scale so I think they’ll be ok. Plus its a good domain name to have.
I just looked into this company and it looks like they own http://www.limobroker.co.uk and http://www.coachbroker.co.uk too. Looks like they know what thwy’re doing.
Still not as good as this site hey?
thats a good investment for a wedding car hire site.
Not sure what this company paid for this domain name but I agree with ‘Joan Wedding Girl’ that it won’t take them long to get their money back, especially if they seo and promote the site properly.
they only paid £10, 000.
Their seo seems to be pretty good. £10,000 is a bargain (if that’s true).
I sold them hireweddingcar.co.uk
It is making the money now though
I just registered EarthShatteringNews.com, which according to DomainTools had never been registered before. A Google search (in quotes) brings up 2,460,000 pages.
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Great source of making money.
Great piece of link bait Tej! People just think about the amount of EKM links this little porky has produced for the website in question!
What a domain hey!
We’ll let him know.. Remember about our limo hire edinburgh services. 🙂
Heres what it was bought for. The man is not an honest man.
http://domainlore.co.uk/weddingcarhire.co.uk
Paul
I know about this transaction as I also wanted to buy this domain. It was purchased on domainlore by DomCollect who’s based somewhere outside of UK, then it was sold to the current buyer for a very large sum. I wasn’t told the exact figure. I’ve since seen their website and it’s doing amazing on the search engines. I reckon they’ve made their money back thousands time over.